Things to do this week ...

• Mail out packages.

• Pay cell phone bill, cable bill, rent.

• Do laundry ... all five loads. Bleah.

• Go shopping for some new clothes — a few pairs of pants, a few new shirts.

• Replace driver's side tail light, passenger's side headlight.

• Clean out truck cab.

• Use my powers for good instead of evil.

• Stop global warming.

• Catch up on e-mail.

• Buy a winning lottery ticket.

• Play a bunch of Neverwinter Nights with My Favorite Person.

• Balance the federal budget for fiscal 2007.

• Save at least two endangered species.

• Get off my ass to reorganize the living room.

• Resume separating all my stuff into what I need, what I need to sell, what I need to throw away.

• Create a clone of myself to do most of the boring chores listed above.

• Become a bit more creative in posting to my blog so I don't have to put up weak shit like things to to this week.

Random Guam Fact Of The Day:
• The only mammal indigenous to Guam is the Marianas fruit bat, which is called "fanihi" in Chamorro.

bleah

the bad thing about three-day weekends is everyone seems to be sleeping in ... or out of the house doing something. too many people in blogland only seem to be online from their workplace, so three-day weekends there means empty and lonely over here.

*sigh*

guess I'll go do some chores and shit for an hour or two and hope someone wakes up to keep me company.

a very Hughes influence ...

For most folks of my generation (I was born in 1969), many of the movies that marked our teen years were made by one man -- John Hughes. He was the king of teen romantic-comedies, and comedies in general. Hughes was the mastermind behind the so-called “Brat Pack.”

His name not ringing any bells? Howzabout some of his movies:

• “Mr. Mom” — Michael Keaton was much funnier as the goofball guy than Batman.

• The “Vacation” series — Still some of the funniest movies EVER. Chevy Chase was brilliant … yes, THAT Chevy Chase … and Beverly D’Angelo was D’Bomb. Heh.

• “Sixteen Candles” — She gave her panties to a geek!

• “Weird Science” — Memorable mostly for an insanely hot Kelly LeBrock. There’s no way I could count the number of times she filled my fantasies. Oh, and a young Bill Paxton as Chet.

From my heart and from my hand
Why don't people understand
My intentions ... Oooh, weird ...
Weird science!!

• “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” — Gotta be one of my all-time faves. The parade scene was brilliant.

• “Planes, Trains & Automobiles” – Steve Martin and John Candy. Need I say more?

• “Uncle Buck” — Another one of my all-time favorite flicks. Picturing John Candy making giant pancakes still cracks me up.

• The remake of “Miracle on 34th Street” — the original is one of my favorite movies ever (I have a lot of those, don’t I? LOL), but the remake did a good job with it. Plus I love Elizabeth Perkins (totally under-rated dream babe!).

• “Home Alone” — Hard to top the physical comedy of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern trying to get “that kid.”

and, of course …

• “The Breakfast Club” — the protoypical high-school stereotypes all forced to spend a Saturday detention together in the library. There was the jock, the geek, the badboy, the popular chick and the weird chick. Together, they all learn they aren't so very different from each other ... aww. LOL

This post was mostly inspired by the death of a key character in the movie — Paul Gleason, who played hard-ass Principal Richard Vernor. He died of a rare form of asbestos-related cancer at the age of 67.

“Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.”

Farewell, Principal Vernor. You will be missed.